Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South

Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by suzzer99 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:13PM (#42568407)

I agree that porn addiction can be destructive. But the idea that you can somehow block porn is ludicrous. Work on the problem from some other angle. This is just puritanical politicians throwing their weight around.

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Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by bhouston on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:19PM (#42568466)

> Work on the problem from some other angle. This is just puritanical politicians throwing their weight around.

Sure. But if I look at this objectively, I am not sure it is going to be solved from another angle by liberal societies any time soon. And religious societies, or at least those that are puritanical in this regards will get a significant and likely sustainable demographic advantage as a result. I think this speaks to the larger issues of why religion has persisted and why atheism has yet to be a sustainable endeavour, rather than a demographic sink. Truth doesn't actually matter, viability via demographic sustainability is how things are actually judged.

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Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by alpaca128 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:05AM (#42573193)

Birth rates tend to be higher in less wealthy societies with high child mortality, yes. I don't think that means what you think it means.

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Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by bhouston on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:58AM (#42574434)

> Birth rates tend to be higher in less wealthy societies with high child mortality, yes.

You are correct that this is the case.

> I don't think that means what you think it means.

I am not sure I follow you logically. You are making a completely separate argument. Many things influence birth rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_factor_(demography)

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